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Censorship .. Bandh!

Watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine yesterday. The movie is pretty fast-paced and interesting. Action scenes are fun to watch and since I am a X-men fan.. I quite liked the movie. One thing that bugged me throughout was the stupid censorship. Star Movies is made to censor the subtitles and the words they chose to censor and their replacements are quite hilarious.

For example, the word hell. Now, can someone please tell me why does this word need censoring in the first place? Isn’t heaven and hell taught when we are kids? Or just mentioning hell is blasphemy? Similarly damn. I mean these words are not even so bad. And they replace these by heck and darn respectively 😀

The next word replacement is ass by arse. How is the latter any better? Am I missing something?? Another example in this category is shit. Instead of shit, they show crap, even bullshit is replaced by bullcrap!!

The final example is showing son of a bitch as son of a gun

From the dictionary on my computer – here are the meaning of these two phrases –son of a bitch ( pl. sons of bitches ) used as a general term of contempt or abuse.son of a gun ( pl. sons of guns) informal a jocular or affectionate way of addressing or referring to someone : he’s a pretentious son of a gun, but he’s got a heart of gold. [ORIGIN: with reference to the guns carried aboard ships: the epithet is said to have been applied originally to babies born at sea to women allowed to accompany their husbands.]

So you replace something meant as an abuse by that which is used affectionately – seriously??

Plus, they completely forget the fact that viewers can actually listen to the words uttered by the characters. How does the subtitle censoring make any sense until its sole purpose is to add to the entertainment quota of the movie 😉

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I am highly irritated by the bandh. Even thought the price rise is definitely something that should be stood up against.. but how is terrorizing shopkeepers, burning buses, stopping trains and vandalizing autos and cabs going to serve any purpose. If anything you are just making life for the common man worse. The fact that it is a political gimmick for securing vote banks doesn’t help. This is just bullying the common man, not fighting for him.

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Ooh, I am X men fan too, watched this one the day it was released and twice again, even yesterday! And guess what, I noticed the very same bull crap thing!
This is nothing, I once saw a movie where they replaced ‘gay’ with ‘likes men’! No sense I tell you! 😮

Aiyyo! I am so bored today at work! 😦
Oh and Second!
I hate this sub-title thing too! The worst part is it is SO damn distracting! I mean darn. 😉
I am really really kicking myself for coming to office today! I could have stayed at Home and claimed I was stuck somewhere! Who would have known. But here I am. In office. In this gorgeous weather. Seriously though, apart from becoming a trending topic on Twitter, the Bandh acheived little else!